The relationship between stress wave transmission characteristics and the compressive strength of biologically degraded wood

Forest Products Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 89-93

  Ross, Robert J ^a   Degroot, Rodney C ^a   Nelson, William J ^a   Lebow, Patricia K ^a  

^a FOREST PRODUCTS LABORATORY   (United States)

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